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How to pronounce hag in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms hagfish, slime eels
Type of jawless vertebrate, jawless fish, agnathan
Has types eptatretus, myxine glutinosa, myxinikela siroka
Type Words
Synonyms beldam, beldame, crone, witch
Type of old woman

Examples of hag

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True to form, she does very well, but she is hag-ridden by that sketchbook.
From the washingtontimes.com
She is a beautiful girl and this portrait make her look like and old hag.
From the newsfeed.time.com
An extreme example of this cute-ification is onibaba, or demon hag.
From the washingtonpost.com
Plus, you have the fashion sense of a stale Fig Newton and I can smell your ratty sea hag hair.
From the courier-journal.com
Chair alternatives include the Swopper, a hybrid stool seat and the funky, high HAG Capisco chair.
From the businessweek.com
Get rid of that old hag she's with he can't be doing her any good.
From the bostonherald.com
I also love the suggestion by reynardmandrake about Madonna liberating ones menopausal inner hag.
From the guardian.co.uk
Her ghost appears as the hag and werwolf attempt to resurrect her.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Crone, hag and witch are probably more common descriptions.
From the chron.com
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  • An ugly evil-looking old woman
  • Hagfish: eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies
  • A hag is a wizened old woman, or a kind of fairy or goddess having the appearance of such a woman, often found in folklore and children's tales such as Hansel and Gretel. ...
  • HAG is a Swiss maker of model trains in H0 scale. These are high quality trains made of die-cast metal with reliable mechanisms. This is the primary manufacturer of Swiss model trains, but they are more expensive than most brands of H0 trains, presumably due to the manufacturing process. ...
  • Tractate u1E24agigah (literally "Festival Offering") deals with the Three Pilgrimage Festivals (Passover, Shavuot, Sukkot) and the pilgrimage offering that men were supposed to bring in Jerusalem. At the middle of the second chapter, the Talmud discusses topics of ritual purity.
  • The Book of Haggai is a book of the Hebrew Bible, written by the prophet Haggai. It was written in 520 BCE some 18 years after Cyrus had conquered Babylon and issued a decree in 538 BCE allowing the captive Jews to return to Judea. ...
  • Hag is an album by country singer Merle Haggard, released in 1971. It was his first album with a majority of original songs in two years. It reached #1 on the Billboard Country album chart and #66 on the Pop album chart. ...
  • Hagfish are marine craniates of the class Agnatha or Myxini, also known as Hyperotreti. Some researchers regard Myxini as not belonging to the subphylum Vertebrata. That is, they are the only living animals that have a skull but not a vertebral column.
  • In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, hags are witchlike beings that spread havoc and destruction, working their magics, and slaying all whom they encounter.